hallo spacedog posted:

Jeez Louise.

Hughlander posted:

Proposed time line.

Feb: Let's get an apartment together!
March: I'm going to need you to move out in August. Oh and you're not on the lease so 'lol'

Expectation is probably not to move twice in less than a year after getting an apartment with a 'friend'

Hughlander posted:

AITA for moving out suddenly and financially screwing my roommate/best friend?

Years later, this past summer, we moved in together. I was hesitant initially but she did all the work finding a place and paying deposits. It was awesome living with my BFF and we had a great time, until last month.

Mx. posted:

AITA for ignoring an autistic guy on my flight?

Lottery of Babylon posted:

hallo spacedog posted:

Jeez Louise.

Evil Willow posted:

AITA for being upset over a name?

I mean yeah, it is only a name, but after telling everyone and painting it on a wall, embroidering it on clothes etc.... the loving balls on the brother!

Sinbad's Sex Tape posted:

It’s always an rear end in a top hat move to kick somebody out of their current home

Uncle Enzo posted:

Also I'm starting to think I may have sympathy for people who got sucked into crypto.

Mr. Lobe posted:

Frankly I think she'd be justified in pressing charges

Judge Schnoopy posted:

Who gives a gently caress what she spends it on, it's their money. They built up careers to have discretionary income and didn't blow it all on crypto, the reward for which is an obnoxiously expensive baby shirt or whatever.

Sister already got a bailout for betting their savings (not extra income!!!) on crypto. Now she wants everybody else to live at her level because she's embarrassed about her lack of money sense? gently caress off.

DemoneeHo posted:

Now OP has the opportunity to name her child Chrollo Lucifer, or Quwrof Wrlccywrlir, which is the romanization according to the official databook.

Anyways, she should get her brother and SIL to watch the show and see why naming a kid after a hosed up character like Illumi is not the best thing to do (then again half of the characters in that show are hosed up)

Tarkus posted:

We feel sorry for people who get suckered into other scams, why not crypto?

haveblue posted:

Yeah this is the answer. Tell them the name is from an anime. Tell everyone the name is from an anime. They just took a bullet for you

Johnny Truant posted:

gimme some examples cause i'm coming up blank

Johnny Truant posted:

gimme some examples cause i'm coming up blank

Pope Corky the IX posted:

In all fairness, people that are in their sixties now were in their twenties in the 1980s. It's not like those were a gentleman wears a hat to the cinema days.

Electric Wrigglies posted:

The list goes on, scamming is very easy to fall pray to

quote:

Dear Prudence,

My partner and I are planning our wedding for later this year. We have planned on a childfree wedding from the start. My sister has three kids (9, 7, and 5) and has always been fine with this, even saying that she was looking forward to a night out without the kids.

During COVID, one of our only social outlets was our neighborhood dog park, and we became close with the people there. We had the idea of having a dog-friendly wedding and ran with it. We found a pavilion we could rent at a park where dogs were welcome and are really excited about the idea of a laid-back wedding with all of our favorite dogs and their people.

Now my sister is angry. She says that she assumed a childfree wedding meant drinks and late-night dancing, not hot dogs and a playground within view. She feels like we have “ranked” our friends’ dogs higher than her children on our priorities list, and pointed out that (since it’s a public park) there will be kids around no matter what. I promised her we’d think about it. I see her points, but I was really looking forward to my adults-only wedding, and am a little nervous about the mix of dogs and kids. Should I let the kids come, or stand my ground?

— Wedding Planning Is Ruff

quote:

Dear Wedding Planning Is Ruff

I can see your sister’s point—when we have child-free weddings we’re usually either doing it for cost-cutting reasons or for wild-and-crazy reasons (or both), and the appeal of a fun, grown-up’s night out might be different from being playground-adjacent. But it’s your wedding, and her expectation doesn’t need to be your reality. Dogs require a little less oversight than kids, even at a park, and mixing dogs you don’t know with kids under 10 could add stress to your day. So, stand your ground on this one. It’s your wedding. A compromise might be explaining to your sister that you’re nervous about mixing dogs and kids and telling her that she can bring her kids if she wants but that you worry it will become a playground day for her rather than a day to relax and enjoy some time with other adults (and a lot of dogs!). Those kids are definitely going to want to go to the nearby jungle gym, no matter who is exchanging vows.

Johnny Truant posted:

it's really not

Electric Wrigglies posted:

I'm sure there are plenty of Britons that ate horse meat when they ordered beef that have the same smug confidence in their ability to just know when a counterfeit part has been installed in their car by the OEM registered dealer

Boba Pearl posted:

No-one deserves sympathy, it's a gift I give you on my own volition.

Johnny Truant posted:

yes, these things are the same as buying into an MLM or thinking you won the Nigerian lottery or something. yup, no false equivalency here.

Johnny Truant posted:

yes, these things are the same as buying into an MLM or thinking you won the Nigerian lottery or something. yup, no false equivalency here.

Electric Wrigglies posted:

Depends by what you mean by chuck, it's a dick move either way but maybe he just done the most common grab firmly around the shoulders and physically moved her a few inches (and she not even take a step) even as she was 20 feet away from the guarding/barriers to the other end of pushing her over the guard to where she could see over the edge.

The old grab someone around the shoulder as if you were going to push them in the water / large tank of toxic chemicals / high place is done so often as to be be a thoroughly inane sort of action and generally does not result in such an extreme reaction.

If it was the mild end, old mate has discovered when someone says they have a phobia, you have to respect that and let sleeping dogs lie lest you lose your relationship but you win some lose some. If it was on the other end and if she didn't resist at all, she woulda went over - then dickhead deserves it as you say.

tired gay and dead posted:

Crypto people don't deserve any sympathy ever, they're all terrible and stupid. The underlying ideology behind the entire enterprise is toxic from step 1, you can't compare it to someone being taken advantage of by a mechanic to repair the car they need to survive in the car culture nightmare world that we live in.

Even if you don't understand how it works it's being sold to people based on some really terrible and stupid fundamental assumptions about how the world works. I don't feel particularily bad for anyone who buys into that kind of poo poo any more than I would feel bad for the people who buy into ponzi schemes knowing full well how it works and end up getting screwed because they thought they'd be one of the ones who makes a profit on it.

Absurd Alhazred posted:

I have had someone say "well, I know pyramid schemes are a scam, but I hear you can still come out ahead if you join early".

Absurd Alhazred posted:

I have had someone say "well, I know pyramid schemes are a scam, but I hear you can still come out ahead if you join early".

quote:

Me (f29) and my STBH (m33) are getting married soon. Wedding planning has so far been going alright except for few things he and I argued about like the venue and flower girl. Now we've been arguing about my wedding dress, This might sound clichè but eversince I was young I dreamed of having my own beautiful wedding dress, I can afford it but my STBH thinks it's not okay to waste a couple of thousands on a dress I'm only going to wear once -- yes he might have a point there but for one, this is typical price for wedding dresses. and two, because it's a once in a life time thing then why not make sure it's special?

STBH still wasn't convinced, and suggested I rent a dress instead of buying one. He started saying that I'm being irrisponsible with money and brought up how much money I've already put aside to "rent a face" (he means makeup) and wear "fake" hair (he means extension) but I have this vision of what I want to...look like, sort of speak, on my wedding and I think that it's my right as a bride. I went ahead and purchased the dress but a day later I found out that it was missing from my closet. I freaked out but he told me he returned it and got the money back. I was shocked I asked him why he did that and he said he thought the dress was ridiculously expensive and that was wasting money and AGAIN suggested I go rent one.

I blew up and went off on him which I've never done before. He literally took few steps back and told me to calm down. I said he had no right, I'm the one paying for the drat dress. He got upset and said that there's no "I'm paying for it myself" in marriage and that my attitude is setting the tone for what type of dynamic we'll have in our marriage, he kept on about how I must expect to him to pay for everything while I keep "my money" or spend it irresponsibly (but I never tell him how to spend his money) I responded that he gets zero say in how I spend my money whatsoever. he told me that I should grow the f up and stop with the "dream wedding dress" clichè then stormed off to call his mom who chewed me out saying she won't let me ruin her son's financial stability with how I deal with money generally. She too urged me to rent a dress or buy cheaper one, way cheaper than the one I picked and move on but I declined.

ETA for repeated questions: Yes, he still has the money and said he'll give it back once we agree to a solution.